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Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name (blue-green eyes).
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? MAC Would Rather Lounge Lipglass, Selena Siempre Retro Matte Lipstick and GREEN eyeshadow galore.
Favorite cheek products this month? UD Jawbone and Now’s The Time, MAC Oh My, Passion, Sweet Vision and the Selena La Reina highlighter La Leyenda.
Favorite base products this month? Just a few dips in the pool wearing 30 spf and I’m already back to having to use my tube of MAC Pro Longwear Waterproof foundation in NC41 again. However, I do prefer the finish on my Fenty Profilt’r Hydrating Longwear foundation more. It looks more skin-like than the MAC one.
Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral skin tone, green eyes, salt & pepper hair
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? (1) Mac single eyeshadows (especially Haux and Satin Taupe). (2) Benefit Precisely My Brow in Cool Grey. (3) Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eyeliners (especially Mushroom).
Favorite cheek products this month? I haven’t used cheek products very much because of face masks, but for my weekly Zoom meetings I’ve been liking NARS Orgasm Blush the best. But I’m going to try Hourglass Mood Exposure because I don’t think I’ve really given it a fair shake yet.
Favorite base products this month? Again, not wearing base products on a regular basis, but my answer is always the same: Estée Lauder Double Wear, especially set with Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Powder.
Three products you couldn’t put down this month?
-Laura Mercier setting powder, Too Faced Born This Way Concealer, and Mented Bronzer.
Favorite cheek products this month?
-Fenty Ginger Binge/Moscow Mule and Coloured Raine Just Peachy
Favorite base products this month?
-Urban Decay Naked Skin Foundation and Colour Pop Tinted Moisturizer
Your skin tone/coloring: Light-medium, warm yellow undertone, dark brown hair and eyes
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? I made a purpose from using everything from my small makeup collection at least once, but other than the products I use everytime I do my makeup, I gravitated the most toward to MAC Quarry eyeshadow, Mehr lipstick and Devotion eyeliner.
Favorite cheek products this month? Keeping it natural / low toned, MAC Harmony
Favorite base products this month? Keeping to old favorites, Paula’s Choice Smoothing Primer Serum SPF 30 and MAC Prolongwear Concealer
Quarry is one of my favorites! Shale, too.
Same on Haux and Satin Taupe. ?
Yup, those four are my all-time favorite MAC eyeshadows!
Quarry (along with Orb) was the first MAC eyeshadow I ever bought. I used to be all about “matte” everything but I’ve not touched Quarry in ages and I use Orb just to finish it off so I can “back to MAC” it.
Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name; magenta/red hair; hazel/green eyes.
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? 1) Wet n Wild Photo Focus Coconut Primer Water, Juvia’s Place Pressed Highlighter in Tribe (Vol 3), and the Melt 420 Palette (Because I was trying to figure out how to make it work, not because I was enjoying it! LOL I think I have a handle on it now.).
Favorite cheek products this month? Buxom Wanderlust Primer-Infused Blush in Ibiza; Juvia’s Place The Saharan Blush Palette Volume II; Beauty Bakerie Cotton Candy Champagne Blush Palette.
Favorite base products this month? BareMinerals Complexion Rescue in Opal 01 (good skin days), Milani Conceal + Perfect Stick Foundation in Porcelain (not-as-good skin days), and Everyday Minerals Semi-Matte Base in Fair 0N (for extra oily days). Golden Rose CC Cream with Spf 30 in Green. It’s the closest of found so far to my beloved and discontinued NYX Green CC Cream.
Your skin tone/coloring: above with freckles, green/gray/blue eyes, warm brown hair.
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? Revlon Super Lustrous Shine Lipstick in Nude Illuminator, Fenty Gloss Bomb in Fenty Glow, and Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine Perfume.
Favorite cheek products this month? Glossier Cloud Paint in Beam, Laura Geller Baked Blush n Brighten in Pink Buttercream and Natasha Denona Mini Bronze & Glow palette
Favorite base products this month? Paula’s Choice Super Light Daily Wrinkle Defense Sunscreen mixed with Missha M Perfect Cover BB Cream, Maybelline Better Skin Concealer mixed with Benefit Boing Cakeless Concealer, and Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter
Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name.
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? I am still going strong on my Lisa Eldridge lippie in Pink Skyscraper. I just can’t get enough of that pink. Fenty Cheeks Out Blush in Strawberry Drip and my Give Me Glow Cosmetics palette in Vintage Rose.
Favorite cheek products this month? Any of the Fenty blushes. I have four now and use them pretty much every time I wear makeup which granted isn’t a lot these days!
Favorite base products this month? Still using my YSL Cushion and Estee Lauder Futurist Hydra Foundation.
I haven’t checked in over a month, but EL futurist hydra is not available in Canada…pfffttt.. I do want to try it.
Your skin tone/coloring: light, MAC NC 20
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? La Roche Posay Toleraine Double Repair Moisturizer SPF 30, Too Faced Sex on the Peach lipstick and Laura Geller Baked Blush in Maui/ Bora Bora
Favorite cheek products this month? Laura Geller Bora Bora/ Maui
Favorite base products this month? Bare Minerals Translucent Invisible Light Mattifying Powder
Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral
Three products you couldn’t put down this month?
1. ABH Renaissance palette
2. PMG Divine Rose: these two palettes have some really similar shades, more so than I would have thought. They have been my staples for the past month as I lean towards a simple pinky bronzey shimmery smokey eye with a bit of a matte transition for my hoods.
3. I’m cheating, but it is two shades of one product – MELT gel liner – Burnish and Spliff. I love these sooooo much.
Favorite cheek products this month? I’m keeping it simple and using Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood bronze and glow in light
Favorite base products this month? I’m using a tinted sunscreen by Shiseido, with a bit of mineral powder on top, Jane Iredale pressed in shade Satin. I’m falling out of love with iT cosmetics CC cream. *gasp. All of a sudden it seems to look yucky and I feel like it is sits unattractively on top of my skin and I think it is clogging my pores. The dewiness no longer makes my skin look plump, it just emphasizes my lines and gravitates there. It’s been an arduous ? battle this year in terms of base products for me. I’m 57 in November.
Wednesday, I turned 60 in December and my foundation started doing the same thing, I’m still on the hunt for something to replace it, this pandemic has thrown a little loop into my search. I hope you find something to replace yours.
I’ve got to go for a more matte look without going with a matte formula because I have dry skin and my face with crack ??. If you find something…share… please!
Oh I’m the same Wednesday! So if you find something before me share as well!
Your skin tone/colouring: Light medium, yellow undertones. Dark brown hair & eyes.
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? Maybelline Full & Soft mascara (which I picked up in Australia in Feb, can’t get it in NZ, booooo!), Revolution Skincare watermelon hydrating gel moisturiser and Dior Lip Glow in Rosewood.
Favourite cheek products this month? BH Cosmetics Truffle Blush quad in Vanilla Cream. 4 perfect rosy matte shades that go with EVERYTHING.
Favourite base products this month? LA Girl Illuminating foundation, hands down. So good!
I LOVE reading everyone’s responses so I suppose I have to participate!
Your skin tone/coloring: Medium, neutral, leaning yellow. (Hazel eyes, brown hair)
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? SPF (Josie Maran or la Roche Posay), mixed with D-Bronzi (that’s one combined product, right??) RMS Buriti Bronzer, Nuxe reve de miel lip balm.
Favorite cheek products this month? Fenty cool berry, Nars fetishized, and RMS Buriti Bronzer (what took me so long to try it?!).
Favorite base products this month? I’ve Been trying for 3 years to establish a tretinoin routine and these last 3 months have made it happen!! So my base is skin care: layers of I’m From rice toner, and SPF/D-Bronzi. I think I’ve worn foundation twice since March and it’s been my now-expired Clinique cc cream (which looks fantastic on my new skin – haha!)
Okay, I’ve been teetering between the I’m From toner and Glow Recipe’s watermelon toner and I think the needle is starting to swing in I’m From’s direction!
I can’t speak for Glow Recipe but I’ve used a lot of essences/toners and the rice toner is out of this world, in my opinion.
Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? All my olive, gold and neutral shades from Naked 2, Tisse D’ Autumne, Huda’s Smokey Obsessions. Lipsticks – Foolish and my last tube of Milani’s Cinnamon Spice.
Favorite cheek products this month? Clinique’s Melon Pop!
Favorite base products this month? Nude by Nature Airbrush primer and L’Oreal’s True Match foundation in porcelain rose.
Three things I couldn’t put down this month? MJB highlander in Olive You, At Lash’d mascara, MJB sheer gel lip color in Eat Cake.
Favorite cheek products this month- Becca Hightlighter in Own your light, Natasha Denona Love Glow and Bloom palettes.
Favorite Base Products: Renee Roulleau Skin Recovery lotion, Armani Luminous Silk Foundation
Yes, Highliner.
Your skin tone/coloring: fair neutral N10
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? Bare Minerals Gen Nude matte liquid lip in Wink (light cool pinky nude), Benefit Roller Lash mascara, Ofra x Madison Miller blush and highlight trio (from an Ipsy glam bag plus a few months ago)
Favorite cheek products this month? I reached for my Colourpop Super Shock blushes so often this month, along with the aforementioned Ofra palette. My fave Super shock blush colors are Between the Sheets, Count me In and Prenup. Planning on getting a peachy/nude color to add to my collection at some point.
Favorite base products this month? I tried the new Maybelline Dream Urban cover SPF50 foundation. I ordered it online in the color classic ivory 120, when I got it I was like oh honey no this is wayyy to peachy; but after I blended it in with a sponge the color completely matched. I’m guessing this would be a drugstore dupe of IT Cosmetics CC cream? I like it, it’s just that I need very little foundation so the SPF in it would probably not be enough to provide good protection outdoors. Maybe good enough if you stay indoors. I used the Too Faced Peach Blur powder over it, and the finish was superb. I generally prefer powder foundation but this one is a keeper for me.
Your skin tone/coloring: pale, cool
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? MAC Full Fuchsia lipstick, Australian Gold tinted sunscreen, Marc Jacobs BravO eyeshadow
Favorite cheek products this month? Bobbi Brown Maui “bronzer” (it’s really a glow-y blush); Too Faced Sweetie Pie bronzer.
Favorite base products this month? The Estee Edit Radiance Activator (long discontinued but I bought backups when it went on sale) – a tiny dot UNDER my concealer makes such a big difference – and, of course, the Australian Gold tinted sunscreen. I don’t think I’ve worn another base product in months.
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? Colourpop California Love palette, Super Shock Highlighter in Glow Burst, and the Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Cherry Blossom.
Favorite cheek products this month? Again the SS Highlighter in Glow Burst, then Tarte blush in Quirky, then good ol’ Physician’s Formula Butter Bronzer in Sunkissed Bronze
Favorite base products this month? I haven’t been wearing foundation because I hate how it transfers on to my masks, and I already don’t wear base products at home, but I have been loving the Dr. Jart+ Every Sun Day Sun Fluid that I received from Influenster a few months ago.
Your skin tone/coloring: Yellow-neutral, NC 37 (Mac), LM 13 (PMG Labs)
Three products you couldn’t put down this month? PMG Labs Mothership I Subliminal, Kiko Skin Tone Foundation (Neutral 50), GOSH Growth Mascara (Discontinued, boo hoo!)
Favorite cheek products this month? Not necessarily a cheek product, but I’ve been using it to highlight cheeks, lower forehead, nose, and chin – BECCA
Favorite base products this month? VDL Lumilayer Primer (my fav so far, though I just purchased the MILK one to try)
NOTE: I’ve decided to use up products (categories of products before buying any more with one exception, if I see a bomb palette that I can’t dupe 80% and I catch a sale, I’ll purchase it.) So, the reason I’m using the Kiko foundation is because during confinement it was good enough so I decided to finish it up and then move on to the next foundation I have (I have soooo many!).